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Posted: 2/17/2009 2:18:02 PM EDT
| What are yall using to get your suppressor wet? How much? How much difference does it make? |
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Water. Our range has a drinking fountain near the stalls.
I just hold it under the fountain and fill from the rear ~1sec and shake it out. Improvement is caliber/brand specific. I've found on my .22lr Warlock there is a slight improvement, but it's not quite worth the mess. On a good .45 caliber can it's birngs it about down to the level of a typical dry .22lr can. Usually required for a "quiet" shot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3pruGDEes .45acp wet vs .22lr dry |
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I shot my AR-45 with HTG Cycle 2 once with water and was AMAZED at how quite it was. Then, oh...I don't know, about 3 weeks later when I was finsihed cleaning all of the water and crap out of the upper and lower receiver, I thought to myself, "That will only be repeated if I really, really, really want to show off quite for somebody. It is just not worth it."
But to answer your question 1) Water 2) One tablespoon per manufacturers instruction 3) substantial...went from moderate but hearing safe, to amazingly quite, more than I even thought possible. as a matter of fact, only comparable to my 22 supressed... |
| When I picked up my suppressor from Elite Iron, Dale just dumped a bunch of water down the open chamber of the UMP. I've repeated this method a few times since then. I guess I shot enough rounds through it to dry it out. It'll throw more crap in your face when wet. |
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Ultrasound gel is approximately 3DB's quieter than water- I saw John Titsworth demo it for me with a few different silencers. I don't know if wire gel is similar enough to yield the same results but I would guess so.
KY is a little too thick. I wouldn't use it or anything thicker than wire gel. I damaged a silencer slightly with KY, and I think it was a large glob of KY impacting the baffling at high speed. Water is probably the safest lubricant, as it doesn't have that problem. |
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